From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 12 13:58:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16841 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:58:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16784; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) id OAA47454; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:57:12 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199901122157.OAA47454@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fb splash.c splashreg.h In-Reply-To: <19990112221750.A25443@gvr.org> from Guido van Rooij at "Jan 12, 99 10:17:50 pm" To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:57:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, des@flood.ping.uio.no, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Guido van Rooij wrote... > On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote... > > > Guido van Rooij writes: > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to automatically get rid of the splash screen > > > > when /dev/ttyv0 is opened? Then it will vanish once a getty is started on > > > > it. > > > > > > Good idea. Kazu, want me to fix it while I'm working on the splash > > > code? > > > > FWIW, I think the way it used to work is that the splash screen would stay > > up until you either hit a key (numlock?) or until you crank up X. > > > > For machines that automatically start up X, it would be nice to have the > > splash screen stay up until X starts. > > > > Hmm..when a login prompt appears (or for that matter, anything either inputting > or outputting anything) on ttyv0 (apart for kernel stuff during booting), > I would expect to see it *without* hitting a key. Well, I'd at least like it to be tuneable. The old splashscreen stuff, I think, would keep the splash screen up until you either hit a key, or X came up. I'm not sure how that was implemented. For an "idiot station" or other embedded system, you want to hide users from the "evil Unix stuff" as much as possible. Having things go in this order: - splash screen - console login prompt - X startup isn't as desireable (for unsophisticated users) as: - splash screen - X startup I'd be happy with some kernel option, flag or whatever to enable the "old" behavior, but I would like to be able to have things work the "old way" one way or another. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message